Health Minister Obadiah Moyo said the move is part of stringent measures approved by the cabinet on Tuesday to ensure that COVID-19 does not spread to the southern African country.
“Those who come without medical certificates showing that they were examined by government doctors from their countries of origin, we will simply say ‘thank you for the visit, but we are sending you back,” Moyo told journalists after Tuesday’s cabinet meeting.
He said the adoption of such a measure was “to ensure that we don’t have people who bring coronavirus into our country.”
“We will take all stringent measures to ensure that we don’t have coronavirus in Zimbabwe,” the minister said.
There have been more than ninety-thousand confirmed cases of coronavirus – and over three-thousand deaths – in fourty-eight countries since the beginning of the year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The disease originated in China and has spread to other parts of the world, including Iran, Italy, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
– APA
